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"But when you're not offering market access, the onus is more on the demander -- in this case, the United States -- to show these other countries that there are benefits."
From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2023
“Est-ce qu’ils vont me demander un autographe? Est-ce qu’ils vont m’arrêter?”
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
Mais dans quel but allons-nous demander à nos deux pays de nouveaux sacrifices d'hommes et d'argent?
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher
He reverted to the conclusion to be drawn from the silk stockings: I replied "Puisqu'il y a des improbabilités des deux côtés, il faut demander au Duc lui-même."
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
When this atrocious law was at last abolished, Montesquieu wrote, "On a vu souvent des peuples demander des priviléges; ici le souverain accorde le droit de toutes les nations."
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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